Most violent crimes in Newhall are not random occurrences, Dubin said.

"A lot of the violent crimes we respond to are domestic-type incidents where the people involved have known each other for a while," he said.

Still, deputies do find themselves responding to violent crimes in Newhall committed by suspects who have never met their victims, such as a May 16 robbery, Dubin said.

"The victim was approached by an unidentified Hispanic male who asked him, ‘Do you have any money? May I have a dollar?"' Dubin said in a Thursday news release. "When the victim pulled out his wallet to give the unidentified male a dollar, the male grabbed the victim's wallet out of his hand and fled the area on foot."

Dubin is one of eight Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station "zone leaders." Each zone leader is responsible for reviewing crime occurring on a daily basis in his or her individual zone.